Word: murderess
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...childbirth go directly to heaven. The large lying-in cast of Life Begins emphasizes the predicament of its most pathetic member, Grace Sutton. She (Loretta Young) is a young matron who anticipates, in addition to the pangs of a delivery, 20 years in prison because she is a murderess. This causes the physicians who are attending her confinement to make a decision which is tragic for Grace Sutton's young husband (Eric Linden). When her labor pains have lasted for 30 hours, they decide on a Caesarian operation, save the child and let the mother...
...much moved by the acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto that he had killed her two children in the woods, whereupon Mrs. Jensen...
...evening he sees a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) brought into court on a vice charge. He defends her, makes her his mistress. Like Lawyer Day, Lawyer Corrigan is thick with thieves. A political gangster (William Boyd) helps him to be made state's attorney. When called to defend a murderess, Corrigan remarks, "She'd be free tonight if I were her lawyer." Then he obtains a confession and conviction...
...unmarried sinner leaps out of a window when she learns that her seducer has been packed off by his family to South America. In contrast, the independent lady who insists on being called "Miss" has come to the ward to bear eugenic, fatherless progeny. Others are a lady murderess, a psychopath, an Italian woman, a mother of six-blessedly quiet and collected about the whole business-a malingerer who wants the relief of an abortion. The affairs of this gallery of victims to nature run into each other, bump, skip and leap across two hours of pitiless, often nervously...
...suitors, only Manufacturer Jim had doubts of her guilt; when Melton finally ran away from them all he was sure he knew why, was sure she was innocent after all. In Manhattan he found her at last, convinced her he was not enough of a sophisticate to love a murderess, made her admit she loved...